Agnes Hammer
Ticket to Nowhere
09/01/2012
272 Pages, 14.0 x 21.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-8390-0130-1
Trade Paperback
12,95 € (D)
13,40 € (A)
incl. VAT, shipping extra
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Düsseldorf Station, Platform 3 D Tuesday, 6.10 am Like any other morning, the local train is trundling from Koblenz to Bonn. The wagons are full of commuters, college students, businessmen and women on their way to the airport. In among them is Max, a 20 year-old athletic type. He is carrying a backpack and dragging a little suitcase on wheels. When Max steps off the train, the little suitcase with the bomb stays in the wagon...
Max met Adil on his way home from school, when he helped him beat off two drunken Neo-Nazis. They made friends and Max was enthralled by the way Adil showed his trust in God, and his profound conviction that everything has a meaning. Together, they visited a little mosque in Düsseldorf and heard Imam Mohammad preaching. Max felt as if his eyes had suddenly been opened, that the veil which had covered them all his life had been removed. He started going to evening class to learn about the Koran and the Arabic language, and within a few weeks he had converted to Islam. Slowly, very slowly, he came to realise that he was one of the chosen. He was God’s instrument, through whom unbelievers would be punished...
• An exciting political thriller which asks what motivates young men to adopt a radical ideology.
• The story is told alternatively from the viewpoint of Max, the murderer, his sister Paula, and Kemper, the
policeman.
• Extra tension is provided by a deep, but apparently impossible love interest.
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Agnes Hammer
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Agnes Hammer grew up with five siblings in Westerwald in Germany, before she moved to Cologne for her studies in German literature and philosophy. Today she works at an institute teaching young adults from difficult social backgrounds. Since 2005 she has also worked as an anti-aggression trainer....
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